20. For it came about when the flame went up from the altar toward heaven, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell on their faces to the ground.
21. Now the angel of the Lord did not appear to Manoah or his wife again. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the Lord.
22. So Manoah said to his wife, "We will surely die, for we have seen God."
23. But his wife said to him, "If the Lord had desired to kill us, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things, nor would He have let us hear things like this at this time."
24. Then the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson; and the child grew up and the Lord blessed him.
25. And the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.